V2 COLEOPTERA. 



I have repeatedly captured this insect, but always very 

 sparingly^ in the neighbourhood of London. 



25. EiVNEARTHRON coRNUTUM, Gyll. ; Watcrhousc, Trans. 



Ent. Soc. Ser. 2, 208(1860). 

 Cis cornutus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. iv. 626, 3—4 (1827). 

 Ennearthro7i cornutiim, Mellie, Annales d. 1. Soc. Ent. 

 de France, Ser. 2, vi. 362, 1, T. 4, f. 12 (1848). 

 Readily distinguished from E. affine, Gyll., by its superior 

 size, rufo-testaceous hue, and by the tuberculated thorax of 

 the males. 



" Hawkhurst, Kent." 



Apparently rai-e ; Mr. Dossetor captured several examples, 

 during the past summer, in the New Forest. 



26. Anthicus bimaculatus, Illiger; E. W. Janson, Proc. 



Ent. Soc. 6 Feb. 1860, Zool. 6937 (1860). 

 Noioxus bimaculatus, lUiger, Magaz. d. Insektenk. 



i. 80 (1802). 

 Anthicus bimaculatus, Gyll. Ins. Suec. ii. 499, 9 

 (1810) ; Schmidt, Ent. Zeit. Stett. iii. 125, 2 (1842) ; 

 de Laferte, Mon. Anth. 147, 49 (1848) ; Redtenb. 

 Faun. Austr. Ed. ii. 640 (1858). 

 Conspicuous amongst all the species of the genus hitherto 

 ascertained as indigenous to Britain by its larger size, pallid 

 hue and obovate convex elytra. 



A single specimen, given me by Mr. Josepli Chappel, of 

 Pendleton, near Manchester, by whom it was taken, in the 

 summer of 1859, on the Lancashire coast, is the only British 

 example which I have yet seen ; it differs from the normal 

 form, that first described by lUiger, in having the black 

 dorsal spot on each elytron, a little behind the middle, nearly 

 obliterated, and in this respect appears to confirm the Mar- 

 quis de Laferte's observation — " que les individus du bord 



